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Title:
Foldable tires, folding method and use
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP6337893
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
A collapsible tire for a motorized two-wheeled vehicle, containing a carcass reinforcement possibly surmounted radially from the outside by an inextensible crown reinforcement, itself radially on the inside of a tread, the reinforcements each containing at least one layer of reinforcing elements, the tread connected to two beads by two sidewalls, the beads intended to come into contact with a rim, each bead containing at least one circumferential reinforcing element called a bead wire, the bead wire defining a mean line forming a substantially circular closed curve in a circumferential plane. The bead wire is flexible and contains at least one concave part Pc of smaller radius Rc and of center of curvature Cc, and contains at least one unwrapped metal cord the carbon content of which is comprised between 0.5 and 0.9%. A method of collapsing the tire and to a use of the tire.

Inventors:
Laurent Christoph
Application Number:
JP2015518979A
Publication Date:
June 06, 2018
Filing Date:
June 19, 2013
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Company Generale De Ettablissman Michelin
International Classes:
B60C15/04; B60C3/08; B60C9/00; B60C9/06
Domestic Patent References:
JP52073402A
JP58185304A
JP2002088666A
JP56128385A
JP2011528642A
JP5162514A
JP63111303U
JP43011556Y1
JP52022204A
Foreign References:
GB1182664A
US4238259
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Koichi Tsujii
Sadao Kumakura
Disciple Maru Ken
Mitsuru Matsushita
Ichiro Kurasawa
Yamamoto Kousuke